SPUG: exec question

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:39:49AM -0800, Ben Reser wrote:
>> I perfectly understood why you did what you did. Using the shell for
> that is completely wrong IMHO. It is unnecessary to achieve the desired
> result and opens you up to security issues. The little bit of effort to
> code a fork/exec is offset by simply not having to worry about shell
> meta-characters.
>> Additionally, he seemed to not want any extra processes hanging around.
On the contrary, he complained that his Perl script wasn't
continuing to run after he launched the new command with exec,
which indicated that he was indeed trying to create a new process,
but he was going about it incorrectly.
Anyway, we've raised some good points here and the original poster
reports that his problem got solved along the way, so this thread
has run its course, IMHO.
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